<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: RemoteLeg<br/>
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As you can see from the responses above, automation is a very personal topic and what works for one person does not work for another.<br/>

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Absolutely agree. The game is complicated enough (with enough ...

ORIGINAL: RemoteLeg

The simplest way is to automate retrofitting for the specific design.

Thanks for confirming this, RemoteLeg; I bet this can be an effective way to manage a fairly complicated "rolling" refit.

<t> Pardon if this topic has been beaten to death, but I am very interested to hear how other gamers manage the automation and why; like which parts of it you use, and when/if you turn other aspects of it on. Some fresh perspective might help all of us tweak our games differently.<br/>
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<t> Well I can do your "Edit" function with the Upgrade button (by just cancelling it when I'm done checking), and other than that, I see one button advances the design name while the other doesn't. So I still contend that it's a redundant feature (whereas, a "Retrofit all of this design" button ...

Ha! That's some super sleuthing there, Aeson. It never even occurred to me to study the photo. [:)] You shall be Sherlock of the Distant Worlds forum.

<t> Bring up your ship design; does it show full speed in the graph? I have noticed that some of my highly tweaked designs don't have a good power ratio and do less than max speed (adding another power plant tends to fix that).<br/>
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On a side note: [X(] How the heck can you stand to build ...

<t> For example, say I just redesigned all my small bases, and I have a bunch out there. Must I hunt them all down and select "retrofit" or is there some way to say, in effect, "hey, here's a new design all you small bases--make it so"? Or certain ship designs, but not all of them.<br/>
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<t> This is part of the supposedly unchangeable automation that drove me so crazy. Foolishly, I wrestled with it and fumed at it before realizing that I must work around it (and hey, I made peace with it so it stopped bugging me, heh). Here's what I have learned: ships with automation on will refuel ...

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Also it sounds like you're trying to play perfectly. If you are then I would suggest to let things go. For example, I used to design ships. Now I don't. I have more time to play instead of designing, and the ship quality is maybe 10% less ...

<t> So it's clear that there's really no way to hedge against pirates knowing you're there (you take a gamble if you build unprotected stuff). I think it's just safe to assume pirates will know where your stuff is fairly quickly, and then it's anyone's guess whether or not they will target it (in a ...

<r> Now I'm bummed with the idiot automation all over again. Aeson, I set the fleet refuel setting to 100% (so all the ships would need fuel before leaving), but I just had an empire attacking one of my new colonies with a newly building base, and plenty of defenders. <I><s>[i]</s>Right<e>[/i]</e ...

<r> Hello, Bing. Thanks guys for the insight--it will help tweak my operations. <br/>
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You guys both seem to assume that pirates don't attack things they haven't explored, and I'm afraid I have direct evidence that's untrue (in addition to the godlike behavior of the Legendary pirate group ...

<r> Hey there, Aeson. Thanks for the quick and thorough reply--I will play with the Empire settings, as you suggest. Perhaps it was those that keep overriding my individual fleet settings (though my logic says it should be the other way around, that if I bother making specific fleet settings they ...

<r> Playing this game is like herding cats, I swear! [X(] But most things can be figured out, and for the most part I'm learning how to make all the damn cats march to my tune--most of the time. <br/>
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What's stumping me is the complete disregard for a direct order: I'll set a fleet to ...